Political ad spending tops $71 million in Minnesota
This is the first year that political advertising can be quantified across radio, broadcast and cable television without visiting individual stations.
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Limiting children’s screen time linked to better cognitive skills
When limited screen time is coupled with a good night’s sleep — at least nine hours a night — children tend to score even better on cognitive tests, the study also found.
A brief history of the brief history of the new-State-Fair-food media frenzy
Starting around 2008, the fair media team realized that they were sitting on some valuable information. Hence the birth of the annual new food rollout.
Sex, lies, and Hulk Hogan: How a South High grad is riding the storm of Trump-era journalism
Over the years, former Gawker Editor-in-Chief Alex Pareene has called Donald Trump a “fictional television clown tycoon,” “a living freak show,” and “a weird attention-hungry idiot.”
Media notes: weather satellites, Facebook fixes, and where Clinton and Trump voters got their info
Plus: more on the NFL’s bad year; and The New York Times’ 2020 Report.
What I learned from talking to college kids tasked with reading The New York Times for a week
If you think “kids these days” have checked out of interest in the world around them, you couldn’t be more wrong.
Kerri Miller on her new gig, hosting a national call-in show during Trump’s first 100 days
Miller is part of a 14-week slate of public radio programming, a lineup that also includes longtime Wisconsin conservative radio host Charlie Sykes.
In the age of Trump, will the media wring its hands — or assert the kind of oversight the public appears to want?
Missing from the discussion among the nation’s acknowledged journalistic leaders is any prescription of how to better cover Trump.
The best — and the not so good — of the past year in local media
My take on the highs and lows of Minnesota print, TV and radio journalism.
The best (and worst) of the media in 2016
Let’s begin with the bad news first — and condense the blotter of offenses to a representative few.
Behind KSTP’s decision to publish the EOAA report on U of M football players
The EOAA report painted a picture starkly at odds with what little the public knew at that moment, a public that had an appetite for a lot more clarity on what had actually happened.
This week in media: fake news, Tom Wolfe, and why Vice is (again) suing the FBI
Will anything work for those who, frankly, don’t care if what they read and share is true as long as it is weaponized enough to damage the opposition?
Report on 2016 presidential election details how the media got played
Authored by Thomas E. Patterson for Harvard’s Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy, the summation reads like an indictment for mass negligence of American journalism.
Vice goes deep on the Obama years in ‘A House Divided’
Plus: David Simon takes on the porn industry, and more Westworld wonkery.
Why weather nerds are so excited these days
Two weeks ago, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched the first of a new generation of weather satellites: GOES-R.
‘I just want a level playing field’: Power Line’s Scott Johnson on liberals, laziness and bias in the media
Started by Johnson and John Hinderaker, Power Line has become an influential outpost of conservative opinion-shaping.
Ok, Westworld, you’ve hooked me
If Westworld sounds like yet another attempt to capture the magic of “Lost,” network TV’s last puzzle palace, you’re not too far off.
Of course fake news on Facebook is a real problem
Among other problems, nontraditional journalism platforms — companies like Facebook — will “always default to the path of least resistance,” says U of M professor Jane Kirtley.
A more compelling theory for the decline in NFL ratings
The explanation may very well lie in a combination of things, plus a facet about which I’ve seen no discussion: commercial overload.
Nobody knows anything. And other lessons from Election Night coverage
American journalists and their heretofore vaunted analytics compatriots were proven all but universally wrong in judging the appeal of Trump to the country’s voters.
